Thread: Our first home

Yes Steve i changed my photos on Photobucket into a file and that stopped the photos showing up on here,so teakdoor mailed me and told me.

They took the thread off so i could get it fixed and its back today.

I was thinking of getting the roof sprayed with foam on the inside to keep the house cooler.
I will be home next week and thinking of putting the cable into the window and door frames for an alarm system as they build...keep it tidy.

When i have a house warming if your in town your are welcome too come up

Do they not insulate with rolls of heat resist insulation material Brian ?

Yes,but i remember seeing the spray foam advertised a while back....all have a look next week and see the price.

I have asked this company for a price.

SprayFoam Thailand

Originally Posted by brian3673

I have asked this company for a price.

SprayFoam Thailand

Interesting. I'd be curious to see how it works out. I might look into this at our house, even with the fiberglass insulation already installed (and I have plans to put additional fiberglass batts in after PD House is gone from the property.

Thanks !

Best of luck,
did in once, NEVER again.
one suggestion, be there EVERY day that something is being done!!!

Originally Posted by Phuketrichard

did in once, NEVER again.

what did you do?

Originally Posted by stevefarang

Originally Posted by brian3673

Brian,
I really like that front perimeter wall. Do you have a bigger picture showing it in better detail ? That picture you posted is really small.

Thanks,
Steve

Perfectly safe, yes :-)

Interesting....

Brian, photo of finished house looks beautiful. Good luck! I look forward to more pics . . . and of course to the convivial input of our esteemed commentators.

300 sqM sounds awfully large to me - that'd be about 3000 sq ft. Of course, maybe you count the size of houses differently than in Kansas.

My house is 1300 square feet, @120 sqM and feels like ample space, On the smallish size nowadays, but a pretty respectable size a century ago when it was built. But add in the basement and garage and you're up to around 2400 sq.ft. or around 220 sqM.

Now, my lot is just about as small as they come around here - 50x117feet @ 15x35 1/2 meters = 532 1/2 sqM.

I'm just warming up for my first trip to Thailand, so I don't know beans about things there, never mind real estate.

Hi Brian and good luck with the build.

I note you have nominated your location as East Pattaya and whereabouts in East Pattaya is your home located?

Originally Posted by JanetL

300 sqM sounds awfully large to me - that'd be about 3000 sq ft. Of course, maybe you count the size of houses differently than in Kansas.

My house is 1300 square feet, @120 sqM and feels like ample space, On the smallish size nowadays, but a pretty respectable size a century ago when it was built. But add in the basement and garage and you're up to around 2400 sq.ft. or around 220 sqM.

Now, my lot is just about as small as they come around here - 50x117feet @ 15x35 1/2 meters = 532 1/2 sqM.

I'm just warming up for my first trip to Thailand, so I don't know beans about things there, never mind real estate.

Janet, I cannot find that figure anywhere. He mentioned that the house is 300 Meter from the main road. The size of that house is nowhere near 300M2. I doubt the entire land surface it sits on amounts to that.

Nice protect Brian, the Wife has a 1 Bedroom House in Bangna, when we look at it on Google Earth the Sun reflects of the concrete road and buildings.
reminds me how hot it used to get there

Looks hot to me also, more yard and lots of insulation in attic. Will pick house in smaller village and more land. Good luck.

Originally Posted by brian3673

I have asked this company for a price. SprayFoam Thailand

I'm amazed that they are still legally allowed to kill people in Thailand. You get an electrical short in the ceiling and you would be dead from toxic fumes in minutes if that shit ever caught a light. 8 years ago a disco in BKK killed a lot of people when that shit caught alight. The only pro active thing they did was fine people without alarms.
Little bit late to mention this but keep it in mind for next time if you can buy it in Thai.
EnviroSeal Roof Sarking | Bradford Insulation

As for termite proofing what are they going to eat??

anything edible

wood, books, magazines, socks

Yeah, don't go with the spray in foam insulation... they have that crap down under as well. It is supposedly fire proof, but it certainly burned well enough when one of our neighbour's houses caught fire from a fault in their solar panel set-up... the whole roof space caught on fire, and the fire alarms didn't go off because they are mounted under the ceilings... whereas the smoke was above them... it was only when the fuel tank in their car blew up and woke them up that they realised there was a problem, and even then they only had minutes to spare before the whole roof (tiled) caved in... it literally was the whole roof that went.

Termites in a brick/concrete home... I am assuming there is no structural timber in the roof? If not, the only thing termites may go for would be wet chipboard cabinets in your kitchen or bathrooms. If you have structural wood, then termites may burrow up through the brick/concrete to the wooden roof if any of that wood gets wet, eg due to a leaky tile. With our pad, we didn't install the pvc distribution system, but instead had the perimeter of the pad poisoned (it needs to be done every 5 years... although forgot the name of the poison used). This has been fine so far, and we have a lot of wood in our house, including structural timber roof beams and the entire second floor is wood.